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MAYHEW MAYNOOTH 303 Davy. He is also author of " The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints, a Contemporary His- tory " (1852) ; " Upper Rhine," illustrated by Birket Foster (1858) ; " Lower Rhine " (1860) ; " German Life and Manners " (new ed., 1866) ; and, in conjunction with John Binny, "The Criminal Prisons of London " (1862). II. Ed- ward, born in London in 1813, was during his youth the manager of a strolling company, and in that capacity wrote "Make your "Wills," and other farces. He has published a valuable manual on the " Management and Treatment of Dogs," " Treatise on the Mouth of the Horse" (1849), and "The Illustrated Horse Doctor" (I860). II. Thomas, born in 1810, was one of the first to prepare cheap publi- cations for the poorer classes, and started several "penny dictionaries," "penny gram- mars," and similar works, forming the " Penny National Library." He was at one time editor of the "Poor Man's Guardian," which during the agitation of the reform bill encountered the opposition of government in consequence of its radical opinions. IV. Horace, born in London in 1819, besides sharing largely in the authorship of the books by the " Brothers May- hew," published several humorous works under his own name, including " Change for a Shil- ling," and " Model Men and Women " (1848) ; "The Toothache, imagined by Horace May- hew, and designed by George Cruikshank" (1849); "Letters left at the Pastry Cook's" (1852) ; and " Wonderful People " (1856). He died April 30, 1872. V. Angnstos, who had an equal share with Horace and Henry in the pro- duction of the " Brothers Mayhew " series, has been an industrious contributor to periodical literature, and has published under his own name "Finest Girl in Bloomsbury" (1851)- "Kitty Lamere" (1858); "Paved with Gold' or the Romance and Reality of the London Streets " (1858 ; 4th ed., 1872) ; " Faces for Fortune" (1866); and "Blow Hot and Blow Cold " (1869). MAYHEW, Jonathan, an American clergyman, born in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., Oct. 8, 1720, died in Boston, July 9, 1766. He graduated at Harvard college in 1744, and in 1747 was ordained minister of the West church in Bos- ton, a post which he filled during the remain- der of his life. He was distinguished as a preacher and a writer of controversial tracts. His opposition to the proceedings of the Brit- ish society for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts and the introduction of bishops into the colonies involved him in a controver- sy with Dr. Apthorp and Dr. Seeker, the arch- bishop of Canterbury. He cooperated with Otis and other early opponents of the arbitrary designs of the mother country, occasionally in- troducing his liberal opinions into his sermons with a boldness which ranked him among the ultra whigs. Among his published works are a volume of seven sermons (1749) ; " Christian Sobriety, in eight Sermons to Young Men;" and " Observations on the Charter and Con- duct of the Society for Propagating the Gos- pel in Foreign Parts." A memoir of him was written by Alden Bradford (Boston, 1838). MAYNOOTH, a market town of Ireland, county Kildare, on the Royal canal, 15 m. W. N. W. of Dublin; pop. in 1871, 2,091. It has a ruined St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. castle built in 1426 by John Fitzgerald, earl of Kildare, and is the seat of the royal college of St. Patrick, founded in 1795 by act of the Irish parliament for the education of Roman Catholics for the priesthood. About 8,000 was voted annually for its maintenance from 1808 to 1845, when 30,000 was appropriated 541 TOL. xi. 20 to repair and erect buildings, and the annual grant was raised to 26,360. By the Irish church act, July 26, 1869, this grant ceased after Jan. 1, 1871, and a compensation of 372,331 was voted. The college has an in- come of 460 per annum from the Dunboyne estates in the county of Meath. By the act